Critical Praise

"Juneteenth...threatens to come as close as any since Huckleberry Finn to grabbing the ring of the great American Novel. "

——Los Angeles Times

" [A] stunning achievement.... Juneteenth is a tour de force of untutored eloquence. Ellison sought no less than to create a Book of Blackness, a literary composition of the tradition at its most sublime and fundamental. "

——Henry louis Gates, Jr. Time